1. |
Echoes
04:25
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echoes, things repeating
beware the usual greeting
look up, watch me gaining
one in a crowd
lowered expectations
i’ll pass on salutations
waiting, patient training
i am a cloud
ups and downs and
sideways detections
back and forth and the
need for connection
side to side and
move for deflection
you can’t escape in
any direction
heard you, twice the first time
you’ll be right back in my line
information coming
what do i know?
power not required
i’m here if you’re not wired
spread wide, making contact
i say you go
ups and downs and
sideways detections
back and forth and the
need for connection
side to side and
move for deflection
you can’t escape in any direction
ups and downs and
sideways detections
back and forth and the
need for connection
side to side and
move for deflection
you can’t escape it
ups and downs and
sideways detections
back and forth and the
need for connection
side to side and
move for deflection
you can’t escape in any direction
(any direction)
(echoes)
(things repeating)
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2. |
Eyes Not My Own
04:38
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that’s you
standin’ by the side of a warning
the road not taken
straight back
unless you look inside and you’re
not mistaken
that’s it
the end of what you know and a new
impression
straight down
the warren opens up, it’s a
new confession
all that i know just melts away
that’s good
i’ll stop and stare off into the distance
mountains calling
cold feet
i know it shouldn’t matter i
feel like falling
that’s bad
i wasn’t really ready for
empty spaces
cold fear
stare into the abyss and
receive it’s graces
wand’ring up and down the hills
of a place i used to travel
i knew it all so well
back and forth along the paths
i will claim the hills and valleys
seen anew
with eyes not my own
stay tight
you’re never really sure if it’s
now or never
get loose
the chances of a singular
fortune lever
get clear
the time will come to recognize
where you’re going
stay here
a knock upon the door
without even knowing
wand’ring up and down the hills
of a place i used to travel
i knew it all so well
back and forth along the paths
i will claim the hills and valleys
seen anew
with eyes not my own
wand’ring up and down the hills
of a place i used to travel
i knew it all so well
back and forth along the paths
i will claim the hills and valleys
seen anew
with eyes not my own
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3. |
Never Mind
04:32
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look at the sunset
is it brighter being up here
a beautiful distraction
blinking lights on the ocean
destination paradise
don’t go ashore without a partner
all for vacation
no i really couldn’t drive there
how ‘bout we float the city
sounds absurd, you would think so
but i’ve nothing much to do
and i could use a change of scenery
never mind the mess you know we’re leaving
i couldn’t stand another minute here
out among the brightly colored people
come with me my darling be a dear
balancing buckets
it’s a six mile walk for water
return trip fully loaded
what a way to stay in shape
gonna have to ask my trainer
if she knows just what to do
get me in shape to look like
you can mind the mess you know we’re leaving
i couldn’t stand another minute here
out among the brightly colored people
come with me my darling be a dear
can’t wait to get back
though i couldn’t wait to leave
it amuses me to change the things i see
optional clothing just a bikini and a weave
neither here nor there, to be or not to be
never mind the mess you know we’re leaving
i couldn’t stand another minute here
out among the brightly colored people
come with me my darling be a dear
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4. |
Darkness
04:35
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you rise
just to leave me
like the promise
of a day gone
i wonder if i even care
drop down
and it’s over
and i face another
lonely
night comes for me a bit too soon
darkness
and i wonder are you coming back to me
darkness
was the light that you gave to me all in my mind
darkness
how i long to embrace you alone again
darkness
i will fall down before you like i’m going blind
lie still
quiet falling
like the velvet
of the evening
i’m broken and alone again
darkness
and i wonder are you coming back to me
darkness
was the light that you gave to me all in my mind
darkness
how i long to embrace you alone again
darkness
i will fall down before you like i’m going blind
honor calls for days return
once again the dawn
lift the veil surrounding me
gazing down upon
darkness
and i wonder are you coming back to me
darkness
was the light that you gave to me all in my mind
darkness
how i long to embrace you alone again
darkness
i will fall down before you like i’m going blind
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5. |
Passing
04:14
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it’s just a lazy pace in the city
a slow walk to the end of a block, or two
it doesn’t take a whole lot of thinking
or mapping out the path
just move on down, get out of the way
i wonder when it’s over
judge me or love me still
you seemed to always want me near
passing by your favorite place
it’s not the same you see
not without your smiling face
i’ve lost a part of me
it never seemed to matter, the timing
you always acted eager to go, with me
i’ve thought so much about when you left us
and what i could not do
the final stroke was only for you
i kept my eyes upon you
your trusting gaze so true
i would not ever tell a lie
passing by your favorite place
it’s not the same you see
not without your smiling face
i’ve lost a part of me
all of the years you’d given to me
pile up in mem’ry, over reacting
look to my side expecting to see
the you that i took away
(the you that i took away)
passing by your favorite place
it’s not the same to me
not without your smiling face
i’ve lost a part of me
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6. |
Rainy Day
04:30
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trying to count the raindrops
blending on my windowpane
one becoming many became
all running down to the same
blurring out the details
softening edges, colors run
bound by downward, gather below
losing themselves to the one
slide along ‘till you gather round
the melting of two to one
proof of acting upon you
once reactions were done
leave a trail behind you
wiping clean the memories
passing echoes, make a repeat
blending right into the seas
are you not what happened
are you what you think you found
interactive, catalyst tool
winding up down on the ground
slide along ‘till you gather round
the melting of two to one
proof of acting upon you
once reactions were done
drifting down it becomes you tend to
work when you gather steam
proof of acting upon you
leaves no trace of the dream
slide along ‘till you gather round
the melting of two to one
proof of acting upon you
once reactions were done
drifting down it becomes you tend to
work when you gather steam
proof of acting upon you
leaves no trace of the dream
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7. |
Undoable
03:52
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counter productive
while away the see
imagine action
find the free
spreading out
enveloping me
every omni
all be the one
only lonely
can’t be undone
receding in
recovering none
slowly pulling forward
reaching for what is just behind
looking for the vanishing
point it out ahead
check the rearview
damage run
won’t continue
can’t be undone
receding in
recovering none
slowly pulling forward
reaching for what is just behind
looking for the vanishing
point it out ahead
action reaction
all unchanged
errant entry
life is rearranged
slowly pulling forward
reaching for what is just behind
looking for the vanishing
point it out ahead
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Cryptic Cadet Las Vegas, Nevada
What started out as the most brutal slap fight in the history of Vegas wound up being a collab that was the only topic worth
discussing after the drugs had peaked and it was too late to get any more alcohol.
After a random meeting, Mark Owen and Cam Tyler discovered a mutual love for hiding out in acoustically treated spaces, hunching over keyboards, and screaming obscenities at each other.
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Mike Green is a phenomenal songwriter & guitarist with a voice like butter. And you'll hear Cryptic Cadet's own Cam Tyler on drums throughout the record. Get it!
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